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Hong Kong air pollution at worst levels ever: report
Sun,8 Jan 2012 06:43 PM PST
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Air pollution levels in Hong Kong were the worst ever last year, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday, a finding that may further undermine the city's role as an Asian financial centre as business executives relocate because of health concerns. Worsening air quality in Hong Kong caused by vehicle emissions and industrial pollution from the neighboring Pearl River Delta is already forcing many in the financial community to move to Singapore. ...
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Hawking turns 70 with "a brief history of mine"
Sun,8 Jan 2012 02:02 PM PST
Reuters -  CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - The world's best known living scientist, Stephen Hawking, was too ill to attend his 70th birthday celebrations Sunday but in a recorded speech urged people to "look up at the stars" and be curious about the universe. Hawking, the author of the international bestseller "A Brief History of Time," was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 1963 and told he had barely two years to live. He has since been hailed as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. ...
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Hawking turns 70 with "a brief history of mine"
Sun,8 Jan 2012 11:34 AM PST
Reuters -  CAMBRIDGE, England (Reuters) - The world's best known living scientist, Stephen Hawking, was too ill to attend his 70th birthday celebrations Sunday but in a recorded speech urged people to "look up at the stars" and be curious about the universe. Hawking, the author of the international bestseller "A Brief History of Time," was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 1963 and told he had barely two years to live. He has since been hailed as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. ...
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Novartis unit to take $120 million charge on recall
Sun,8 Jan 2012 10:58 AM PST
Reuters -  ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis's consumer health unit will take a $120 million hit in the fourth quarter after the Swiss drugmaker decided to voluntarily recall some products in the United States and move to improve quality standards at manufacturing sites. Novartis said in a statement on Sunday that operations and shipments had been temporarily stopped at the Novartis Consumer Health (NCH) Lincoln, Nebraska facility, to accelerate improvements at the site. ...
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Bristol to buy Inhibitex for hepatitis C treatment
Sat,7 Jan 2012 08:13 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Co has agreed to acquire Inhibitex Inc for about $2.5 billion to gain access to its promising hepatitis C treatment, the companies said on Saturday. At $26 per share, the deal is a huge 163 percent premium to Inhibitex's closing price of $9.87 on Friday. Recent years have seen significant advances for treating hepatitis C - a serious liver disease that afflicts an estimated 180 million people worldwide - while setting off a scramble among large drugmakers to secure the most promising products. ... Full Story | Top |
No need for routine removal of breast implants - government
Sat,7 Jan 2012 02:55 PM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday a group of experts had concluded there was no need for the routine removal of breast implants made by a now defunct French company at the heart of a global health scare. However, the government said concerned women who had received implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) through the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) could have these removed and replaced with the operation paid for by the NHS. It added it expected private health providers to make the same offer. ...
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Argentina's Fernandez sent home, never had cancer
Sat,7 Jan 2012 02:27 PM PST
Reuters -  BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez never had cancer despite being diagnosed with the disease last month and having her thyroid gland removed on January 4, her spokesman said on Saturday. The government announced just after Christmas that the recently re-elected leader had thyroid cancer. The operation to remove the gland went well, but when it was later analyzed it turned out to have never contained cancerous cells, said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimaro. "The original diagnosis has been modified," he told a news conference. "The presence of cancer cells was discarded. ...
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Late-term abortion doctor arraigned for murder in Maryland
Fri,6 Jan 2012 03:19 PM PST
Reuters - BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A New Jersey doctor accused of murder for performing late-term abortions in Maryland was arraigned in court on Friday and freed on $500,000 bail. Dr. Steven Chase Brigham, 55, who owns abortion clinics in multiple states, and a second doctor he employed, are charged with murder for allegedly starting late-term abortions in New Jersey and completing them in Maryland, which has looser restrictions about where abortions can be performed. The other doctor, Dr. Nicola Irene Riley, remains held without bail in Utah since her arrest December 28. ... Full Story | Top |
Ontario judge says C$50 billion tobacco suit can proceed
Fri,6 Jan 2012 03:08 PM PST
Reuters -  TORONTO (Reuters) - An Ontario judge has ruled that a C$50 billion ($48.82 billion) lawsuit against a group of 14 tobacco companies can proceed, after rejecting an application to dismiss the lawsuit by a group of seven companies. Canada's most populous province launched the lawsuit in 2009, seeking past and ongoing healthcare costs borne by taxpayers due to tobacco-related illness since 1955. The decision was announced by the Ontario attorney general on Friday. ...
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Mixed message from UK and Germany over PIP implants
Fri,6 Jan 2012 03:01 PM PST
Reuters -  BERLIN (Reuters) - German and British health officials issued conflicting messages on Friday about the health risk posed by breast implants made by a French company at the heart of a global health scare and whether they should be removed. Germany's Federal Office for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices advised women with implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) to have them taken out, saying reports from doctors had shown they might constitute a health risk. ...
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Woodford to sue Olympus, drops leadership bid
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:48 PM PST
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - The ousted British CEO of disgraced Olympus Corp, who blew the whistle on a $1.7 billion accounting fraud, dropped his bid to return to lead the medical device maker, blaming cozy ties between its management and big Japanese shareholders and saying the saga had taken its toll on his family. Michael Woodford's campaign against its management rocked the once-proud maker of endoscopes and cameras, but failed to win over Japanese institutional shareholders including Olympus' main lenders, who support a board that has been castigated for insufficient oversight. ...
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No need for routine removal of breast implants: UK
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:19 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday a group of experts had concluded there was no need for the routine removal of breast implants made by a now defunct French company at the heart of a global health scare. However, the government said concerned women who had received implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) through the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) could have these removed and replaced with the operation paid for by the NHS. It added it expected private health providers to make the same offer. ... Full Story | Top |
French implant boss's flippancy sparks anger
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:18 PM PST
Reuters -  MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A police document showing that the boss of French breast implant maker PIP admitted to willfully lying about their poor quality, and said women filing complaints were just seeking money, sparked a furious response in France on Friday. The document, leaked in the French media and obtained by Reuters, records flippant comments by Jean-Claude Mas, the founder and chief executive of Poly Implant Prothese, whose rupture-prone implants have sparked a worldwide health scare. "I knew the gel was not standard but I did it consciously because the PIP gel was cheaper. ...
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Obama lawyers defend healthcare law in Supreme Court
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:17 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration defended its healthcare overhaul law before the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, rejecting arguments by critics who warned that if the government can require people to have health insurance, it might next make them eat broccoli. Administration attorneys, in court filings and at a briefing, said Congress was within its constitutional powers in requiring Americans to buy insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty, a centerpiece of the law known as the individual mandate. ... Full Story | Top |
Germany advises women to have PIP implants removed
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:17 PM PST
Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities on Friday advised women with silicone breast implants manufactured by a French firm accused of using unapproved industrial-grade material to have them removed. The Federal Office for Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices said reports from doctors had shown the implants may constitute a health risk even if they had not yet shown signs of rupture. "The Office thus recommends that the implants in question be removed as a precautionary measure," the body's president, Walter Schwerdtfeger, said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
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